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Replying To CleanShoulder:  "Under 20 competition turning into a farce again, so many walkovers and teams pulling out. I was talking to a young lad yesterday who said his team weren't able to field this morning and would be giving a walkover, then before they notified the county board the opposition got in first and said they wouldn't be travelling and gave the walkover. Some joke, similar to the junior b competition it's a case of who blinks first. This should be a hugely important grade for development of players between underage and adult, however it's being ran at a time of year where it makes it no more than an afterthought of a secondary competition… no wonder there's such a drop off of players"
How are players under 18 allowed play in an under 20 adult competition. Firstly I am all for them playing adult football. I do think players should be allowed play adult football when they out of u17, it worked for 100 years and the gap from u17 to adult seems to be to big and alot of players stopping, esp in smaller clubs..The GAA should have made a national decision, one way or the other, currently in Athlone there are players in class together, half of them can play adult football with brigids and Clann and other half are not allowed play with athlone and Garrycastle. Ps... which is the stronger county??? Its a crazy situation.

Upforthegame23 (Westmeath) - Posts: 102 - 11/11/2024 07:17:05    2579174

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "You obviously don't have a clue re the real situation there. Yes the Glennons were excellent club players for Tyrrellspass but your snide comment still isn't relevant"
Tried to respond but moderators aren't allowing me to get message across.

iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 98 - 11/11/2024 08:37:04    2579182

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Replying To Upforthegame23:  "How are players under 18 allowed play in an under 20 adult competition. Firstly I am all for them playing adult football. I do think players should be allowed play adult football when they out of u17, it worked for 100 years and the gap from u17 to adult seems to be to big and alot of players stopping, esp in smaller clubs..The GAA should have made a national decision, one way or the other, currently in Athlone there are players in class together, half of them can play adult football with brigids and Clann and other half are not allowed play with athlone and Garrycastle. Ps... which is the stronger county??? Its a crazy situation."
Westmeath clubs voted for it

Thechick (Westmeath) - Posts: 247 - 11/11/2024 10:27:13    2579195

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Replying To iarmhiabu:  "With a few more transfers Tyrrellspass could be competitive against the top teams next year."
ive just seen this comment and i have no reply .

mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1871 - 11/11/2024 11:56:05    2579207

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Replying To Westmeathgael200:  "Hopefully they go all the way. Great to see westmeath teams going well in leinster"
St. Lomans and Garrycastle can both win their respective Leinster Club Championships. Garrycastle had an all round super performance and finished the game brilliantly, James Sheerin made a big difference with the ball needing to stick inside in the closing stages. He's a huge asset to have with conditions getting worse as the weeks go on. St. Lomans can march on to a final easily if they play in any way up to their potential. Caula are not world beaters on the opposite side and St. Lomans have the most experience of any team left in Leinster. This might well be their year and Garrycastle also should have no fear of Leinster especially at intermediate level. Next stop is Lakepoint park tomorrow evening and I'm going with St. Lomans to win by 7+ points in the end.

WmeathWarrior (Westmeath) - Posts: 65 - 11/11/2024 12:46:40    2579214

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Replying To WmeathWarrior:  "St. Lomans and Garrycastle can both win their respective Leinster Club Championships. Garrycastle had an all round super performance and finished the game brilliantly, James Sheerin made a big difference with the ball needing to stick inside in the closing stages. He's a huge asset to have with conditions getting worse as the weeks go on. St. Lomans can march on to a final easily if they play in any way up to their potential. Caula are not world beaters on the opposite side and St. Lomans have the most experience of any team left in Leinster. This might well be their year and Garrycastle also should have no fear of Leinster especially at intermediate level. Next stop is Lakepoint park tomorrow evening and I'm going with St. Lomans to win by 7+ points in the end."
St Loman's should probably get to the Leinster Final. Cuala and Naas was above anything St Loman's have played this year, not sure how St Loman's would fair in a 'shootout' like that game. The standard was fairly high.

iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 98 - 11/11/2024 15:57:22    2579243

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Replying To WmeathWarrior:  "St. Lomans and Garrycastle can both win their respective Leinster Club Championships. Garrycastle had an all round super performance and finished the game brilliantly, James Sheerin made a big difference with the ball needing to stick inside in the closing stages. He's a huge asset to have with conditions getting worse as the weeks go on. St. Lomans can march on to a final easily if they play in any way up to their potential. Caula are not world beaters on the opposite side and St. Lomans have the most experience of any team left in Leinster. This might well be their year and Garrycastle also should have no fear of Leinster especially at intermediate level. Next stop is Lakepoint park tomorrow evening and I'm going with St. Lomans to win by 7+ points in the end."
Thought Cuala were excellent Saturday myself. There are very few poor teams when you get to provincials. Talk of Leinster is a bit premature

Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 172 - 11/11/2024 16:49:28    2579253

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Replying To WmeathWarrior:  "St. Lomans and Garrycastle can both win their respective Leinster Club Championships. Garrycastle had an all round super performance and finished the game brilliantly, James Sheerin made a big difference with the ball needing to stick inside in the closing stages. He's a huge asset to have with conditions getting worse as the weeks go on. St. Lomans can march on to a final easily if they play in any way up to their potential. Caula are not world beaters on the opposite side and St. Lomans have the most experience of any team left in Leinster. This might well be their year and Garrycastle also should have no fear of Leinster especially at intermediate level. Next stop is Lakepoint park tomorrow evening and I'm going with St. Lomans to win by 7+ points in the end."
Very dismissive of Cuala. Any team who wins a Dublin Championship has to be a serious outfit.

Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 660 - 12/11/2024 09:07:53    2579319

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Replying To 2maroonjerseys:  "Twas the div 6 players last night. Due to the rules they can't play div1 players and if they brought up div6 panellists to div 1 they would be cup tied. A great result for those young lads whose hard work and efforts all year have something to show for it.
Rather than sitting at home due to a rule that'll force young lads away from the game. A win is a win. No doubt the town clubs will come hoovering as they've done in the past enquiring about the best players.
The cat among the pigeons would be the three clubs who make up the gaels go all in at senior level as well. Probably never happen but with shandonagh beside them they'll start drawing players away soon, as you know mammies and daddies like winning teams.
You'll have lomans,shamrocks,downs and shandonagh as the town teams and they'll get the vast amount of young lads. Last nights result is a great lift for lilliput and all the people who put in Trojan efforts to keep underage on the go for the 3 clubs concerned.
So your sneering young lads playing is no good to anyone at least these kids will play on for another couple of years and beyond rather than 15 and 5 subs on the div1 team. Lilliputs panel for the u14s is the exception rather than the rule with numbers at underage grades. The town teams can probably field 4 teams and play at the same time so lay off sneering 14 yr old young lads playing a div6 final."
You seem to have a big chip on your shoulder in regard to "town clubs". No Club, town or rural, will refuse a player if they or their parents express an interest for them to move to their Club. Anyone saying otherwise isn't being honest about it.

Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 660 - 12/11/2024 09:20:04    2579322

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Replying To Meridian:  "You seem to have a big chip on your shoulder in regard to "town clubs". No Club, town or rural, will refuse a player if they or their parents express an interest for them to move to their Club. Anyone saying otherwise isn't being honest about it."
Who have Shandonagh hoovered up from other rural clubs in the last 4-5 years? If they have then name the players, otherwise stop spoofing nonsense.

Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1916 - 12/11/2024 12:34:09    2579353

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The calling off of this evening game due to fog and the rescheduling at a later date will have consequences for the winner who will have a shortened interval to the semi-final game.
This game should really have been played over last weekend

BarrRst (Westmeath) - Posts: 29 - 12/11/2024 18:44:24    2579402

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Replying To Westmeathgael200:  "The downs players and committie putting themselves under pressure to deliver a championship 2025 with this carry on. Murray got them to a County final 2024 narrowly beaten by strong favourites St Lomans. He also got the Downs ladies to their first senior final in history of the club year before 2023. Hidden agenda maybe??"
No kelly,moran or Egerton and put it up to lomans. Some achievemen. Would make you wonder why people put themselves forward for jobs these days. No respect..any truth in rumour he is gone?

MFL2017 (Westmeath) - Posts: 5 - 12/11/2024 20:22:58    2579415

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Replying To BarrRst:  "The calling off of this evening game due to fog and the rescheduling at a later date will have consequences for the winner who will have a shortened interval to the semi-final game.
This game should really have been played over last weekend"
Hard to play it last weekend when Castletown had a Leinster junior hurling game on the Saturday, and it'll be a tricky situation for a re-fixture too seeing as their hurling QF is away in Longford this coming Sunday. Big crossover of players for both codes too so player welfare has to be considered (but probably won't).

beano (Wexford) - Posts: 1455 - 12/11/2024 21:34:56    2579427

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Why won't player welfare be considered? Has it not been done up to now by Leinster Council?

Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1916 - 12/11/2024 23:26:05    2579442

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Who have Shandonagh hoovered up from other rural clubs in the last 4-5 years? If they have then name the players, otherwise stop spoofing nonsense."
Think you've asked this question as a reply to the wrong post? I didnt say anyone did. It was 2maroonjerseys.

Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 660 - 13/11/2024 09:30:26    2579456

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Replying To Bluelake:  "Thought Cuala were excellent Saturday myself. There are very few poor teams when you get to provincials. Talk of Leinster is a bit premature"
how would anyone dismiss a team that includes mick fitz and con . lomans should beat the wexford men but ardee will be as far as they will get ardee v cuala final with cuala to win

mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1871 - 13/11/2024 09:33:24    2579457

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Replying To MFL2017:  "No kelly,moran or Egerton and put it up to lomans. Some achievemen. Would make you wonder why people put themselves forward for jobs these days. No respect..any truth in rumour he is gone?"
I wouldn't comment on this any further unless someone has fact instead of some random post by 1 person put on here that nobody has confirmed since. Sure we could all put up a similar post about every team in Westmeath and queue the deluge of posts.

Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 660 - 13/11/2024 09:34:27    2579458

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Any word on an u20 manager?

Offaly u20s back on the pitch 2 weeks and we don't even have a manager!!

Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 513 - 13/11/2024 10:33:20    2579475

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Who have Shandonagh hoovered up from other rural clubs in the last 4-5 years? If they have then name the players, otherwise stop spoofing nonsense."
Hoovering like a helicopter,and enquires have been made about players and don't be so naive to think it doesn't happen. None has happened as liiliputt are still winning and competing yet when losses mount up where will mammy and daddy want the kid to go it's starts with the underage. Sure I can vouch for one incident where a person is actively recruiting for their home team while working in the parish beside it.
Politely eff off was the response they got.

2maroonjerseys (Galway) - Posts: 97 - 13/11/2024 10:48:41    2579478

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Replying To 2maroonjerseys:  "Hoovering like a helicopter,and enquires have been made about players and don't be so naive to think it doesn't happen. None has happened as liiliputt are still winning and competing yet when losses mount up where will mammy and daddy want the kid to go it's starts with the underage. Sure I can vouch for one incident where a person is actively recruiting for their home team while working in the parish beside it.
Politely eff off was the response they got."
As i said previously, ultimately its up to the Parents and the Child as to where they play. There are no parish rules so what you deem to be "recruiting" has been going on for the last 20-30 years and every Club does it to some degree. Some Clubs either have better facilities or are more successful (or both) than others and that does attract players. Its only natural. Parents want the best for their kids in everything they do. All Clubs can do is present themselves as an option, after that its up to the Parents and Child.

Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 660 - 13/11/2024 12:34:51    2579500

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